As fighting between Russia and Ukraine intensifies in the Donbas region, the United States is playing the Taiwan card, giving rise to tensions and raising the possibility of a major adjustment in the Asia-Pacific strategic architecture. In the wake of the

With the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, the rapid rise of oil prices and the exclusion of Russia from the U.S. dollar-dominated SWIFT system, a “de-dollarization” trend seems to be occurring again in oil trading. It poses a challenge to the d